Social Media Mining with R

Social Media Mining with R is a concise, hands-on guide with many practical examples and an in-depth exploration of inference and social science research, which will help you with mining data in the real world.

R is a free software programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. The R language is widely used among statisticians and data miners to develop statistical software and data analysis. 

Social Media Mining with R provides detailed instructions on how to obtain, process, and analyze a variety of socially-generated data while providing a theoretical background to help accurately interpret the findings. Readers will be shown R code and examples of data that can be used as a springboard. The book begins with an introduction to social media data, including its sources and properties. Following on from this, readers will learn the basics of R programming in a straightforward, unassuming way.

Check out the Table of Contents and download a sample chapter from here: http://www.packtpub.com/social-media-mining-with-r/book